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<td class="v">8:1</td>
<td>Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?</td>
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<td class="v">8:2</td>
<td>She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.</td>
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<td class="v">8:3</td>
<td>She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.</td>
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<td class="v">8:4</td>
<td>Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.</td>
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<td class="v">8:5</td>
<td>O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.</td>
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<td class="v">8:6</td>
<td>Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.</td>
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<td class="v">8:7</td>
<td>For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.</td>
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<td class="v">8:8</td>
<td>All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.</td>
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<td class="v">8:9</td>
<td>They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.</td>
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<td class="v">8:10</td>
<td>Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.</td>
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<td class="v">8:11</td>
<td>For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.</td>
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<td class="v">8:12</td>
<td>I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.</td>
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<td class="v">8:13</td>
<td>The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.</td>
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<td class="v">8:14</td>
<td>Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.</td>
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<td class="v">8:15</td>
<td>By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.</td>
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<td class="v">8:16</td>
<td>By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.</td>
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<td class="v">8:17</td>
<td>I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.</td>
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<td class="v">8:18</td>
<td>Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.</td>
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<td class="v">8:19</td>
<td>My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.</td>
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<td class="v">8:20</td>
<td>I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:</td>
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<td class="v">8:21</td>
<td>That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.</td>
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<td class="v">8:22</td>
<td>The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.</td>
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<td class="v">8:23</td>
<td>I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.</td>
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<td class="v">8:24</td>
<td>When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.</td>
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<td class="v">8:25</td>
<td>Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:</td>
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<td class="v">8:26</td>
<td>While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.</td>
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<td class="v">8:27</td>
<td>When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:</td>
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<td class="v">8:28</td>
<td>When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:</td>
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<td class="v">8:29</td>
<td>When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:</td>
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<td class="v">8:30</td>
<td>Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;</td>
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<td class="v">8:31</td>
<td>Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.</td>
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<td class="v">8:32</td>
<td>Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.</td>
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<td class="v">8:33</td>
<td>Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.</td>
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<td class="v">8:34</td>
<td>Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.</td>
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<td class="v">8:35</td>
<td>For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">8:36</td>
<td>But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.</td>
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